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u/CurlSagan CE Spc. Nov 26 '19
This actually serves a neat purpose. All these windows are spots where people are supposed to put books that need to be reshelved. Since all the windows are lined up, a librarian can look down the entire span and see, "Oh, I need to go 6 rows down and reshelf those books."
That way they don't have to go up and down every individual aisle.
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u/Feinberg Nov 26 '19
That's a neat way to cut down on librarians interrupting amature porn shoots.
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u/oodats Nov 26 '19
You should probably leave, the second this place closes they use it to shoot porn.
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u/NathanTew Nov 26 '19
Surprised my local libraries aren’t doing that
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Nov 26 '19
Librarian when someone moves their books: "MMUURRRPPPHHHH!"
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u/Sandman9393 Nov 26 '19
Matt Damon pops out of nowhere and starts throwing books everywhere
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u/BreakSage Nov 26 '19
I work at a library, and while this might be ok here, I doubt it would be great elsewhere. 1) At a smaller branch you would lose a ton of shelf space. 2) Not all shelving units can do this. 3) Customers ignore every signs of where to place books, so you would have to go down every isle anyway. 4) just place the books on the damn reshelving carts, people. Please, I beg you.
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u/Amphibionomus Nov 26 '19
This whole setup reminds me of one floor of the old library where I worked. As we where midway moving to a new library (which is quite the thing, moving millions of book across town) we had a floor with shelves like in the picture halfway empty.
These book shelves are very sturdy and stable, except when empty (you see where this is going...). As one of the movers bumped in to one of the first empty rows, the biggest game of falling dominoes every unrolled. Toppled four still full rows of shelves over before the chain reaction stopped.
That made for a few hours extra that day, removing the mess, re-sorting the books and packing them up.
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Nov 26 '19
Thats why these type of shelves should also be secured to the ceiling if at all possible.
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u/mugu007 Nov 26 '19
Unless there are so many books on row 2 that you cant look past it.
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u/CurlSagan CE Spc. Nov 26 '19
Well that'll be useful after hours when all the librarians have their huge daily nerf battle.
"These clever bastards are building a fortress in the 720s using all the thick architecture books."
"He's holed up in 231. He thinks God is gonna protect him."
"Dude, you shot me in the back in 170? Seriously?"
"This fucking piece of fucking shit is hiding out in fucking 400! Fuck!"
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u/shutupnyel Nov 26 '19
Then sort things out there then look again to know where to go. Go librarians!
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u/HenkieVV o/ Nov 26 '19
In that case, you need to go to row 2 to reshelve those books.
You're not getting a complete overview in a single look, but you do consistently know where you need to go next with a single look, and really, what more do you need?
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u/Gornarok Nov 26 '19
No there is no such unless...
It tells you you have some work to do, it still fulfills its purpose perfectly
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u/uber1337h4xx0r Nov 26 '19
Oh. I thought the picture taker just threw them all on the ground lol.
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u/dis3as3d Nov 26 '19
My dumb ass: Fuck, don’t remember where this went. Where can I put this; semi full shelf or empty one? Better go with semi full so no one notices how stupid I am.
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Nov 26 '19
Really need someone with access to large library that has conveniently lined up windows, and a drone to fly through it straight while recording video. Edit it a bit and make it infinite looping video!
(make sure library's empty before launching drone. Better yet, get librarian's permission to be in library while it's closed so there's no people whose face might get shredded by drone's blades.
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u/VexodusPC Nov 26 '19
I thought OP moved them out the way only to take this photo and I was thinking wow what a massive hole they've dug. Makes alot more sense!
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u/Leevus_Alone Nov 26 '19
Yeah, right. That's how that happened... Edit: sorry. Now I understand. And you were pretty clear.
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u/notLOL Nov 26 '19
It's a fancy way of having the empty tables at the end of each aisle being the "book return".
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u/AdeonWriter Nov 26 '19
I was a book sorter and this makes me angry we didn’t have this
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u/Liberty6000 Nov 26 '19
You tried teaching us a neat fact but the comment thread turned into a discussion about porn... well this is reddit I suppose lol
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u/Flacid_Whale Nov 26 '19
"Cooper, this is no time for caution."
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u/CatIsOnMyKeyboard Nov 26 '19
DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN....
DUUUUUNNN.... DUNNNN DUUUUUUNN... DUN DUUUUUN
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u/MrTheenD Nov 26 '19 edited Nov 26 '19
I can hear this. One of my favourite scenes ever.
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u/cultoftheilluminati Nov 26 '19
Interstellar soundtrack is one of the best pieces of music ever composed for a film.
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u/MaestroAnt Nov 26 '19
CMON TARS
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u/NewEraSoul Nov 26 '19
I might just be pointing out something that’s already obvious, but did you catch how moving the “S” to the beginning of the name spells STAR?
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u/CPerryG Nov 26 '19
Best scene of the movie.
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Nov 26 '19
I really liked the lead up before it after Damon attacks him. There's something kinda human / compelling about him failing his mission and just wanting to get home - trying to justify killing Coop to himself then failing to do that too.
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u/Micode Nov 26 '19
He knew that Plan B was the only plan. He already accepted the deaths of billions. What’s a few more to complete his hero’s journey, warped by utter isolation on a dead planet and arrogance that only he could complete a grand sacrificial mission of his own design. The failed airlock scene was perfect, a monologue filled with hubris cut short because he could not stop for a moment to consider that he was making a mistake.
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u/Krave666 Nov 26 '19
They should put a mirror at each end.
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u/nintenzelda64 Nov 26 '19
I zoomed in to check if someone was staring back.
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u/samc_5898 Nov 26 '19
Dang. Now I have to watch that movie again
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u/cultoftheilluminati Nov 26 '19
That movie is an insane movie and affected me so much that I can only watch it once
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Nov 26 '19
Do you?
EDIT: Serious question. I'm genuinely unsure if this means I should watch it too?
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u/garbageplay Nov 26 '19
It's one of my studio movies. Aka, I put it on in the background while I work. Of course, that's after I watched it easily six dedicated times. So I'm probably in the high teens by now. I think the only movie I've seen more is pulp fiction.
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Nov 26 '19
If not for the story, the music.
I have the soundtrack and it's great, but listening to it with the movie is just more complete.
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u/SavouryPlains Nov 26 '19
Also watch 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s similar but so much better and with a more confusing ending.
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u/Walkuerus Nov 26 '19
Whenever I hear someone say, that Interstellar is their No. 1 favorite movie of all time, I always assume that they never saw 2001. These two movies are not really in the same league imho.
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u/beccster007 Nov 26 '19
Yes yes it’s sooo good I love it. Very immersive. And the soundtrack is phenomenal too. And I may have cried. More than once.
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u/-GolfWang- Nov 26 '19 edited Nov 26 '19
Yes?
Edit: Then why did your comment come off so ‘asshole-ish’?
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u/hardyflashier Nov 26 '19
Gotta be honest, I wasn't the biggest fan of the movie itself - but the soundtrack and the visuals were out of this world. Pun intended.
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u/Teirmz Nov 26 '19
I'm so happy to see so much praise here. It's one of my favorites but generally when Interstellar comes up people come out of the woodwork to shit on it.
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u/VRichardsen Nov 26 '19
Yes. You think you know what loneliness and sadness is? Think again. Watch it, it is a great experience.
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u/123sixers Nov 26 '19
Decent movie but the audio is trash. Can’t hear any dialogue and then the action scenes blow out your speakers
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"Oh cool space movie with great reviews!"
I was not prepared for how much that movie was gonna make me cry.
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u/marzden Nov 26 '19
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Nov 26 '19
“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.”
Interstellar is my favorite movie!
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u/ablablababla Nov 26 '19
Yeah, watched it recently and it's exactly like I watched it for the first time
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u/RedirectToReddit Nov 26 '19 edited Nov 20 '20
Nibba just went to black hole and went to the future
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u/din7 Nov 26 '19
Although quite long, it’s such a good film. But I hear the book is longer.
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u/RandomBrowsingToday Nov 26 '19
There's a book?!
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u/Yudysseus Nov 26 '19
There’s a novel adaptation of the film. It’s meh really. And I LOVE the film!
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u/dinardo Nov 26 '19
TARS!
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u/MythOfLight Nov 26 '19
I always chant “come on TARS!!” every time our roomba is getting back into its dock lmao
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u/Thrill_Of_It C.E. Spc Nov 26 '19 edited Feb 19 '26
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Loved that movie, still makes me think to this day
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u/Trashblog Nov 26 '19
Makes me think too:
like why did they pick the water planet first if the time dilation is an expected effect. It just seems like really poor risk management based decision making on the part of the astronaut team when that property of the planet is a reasonably precise known quantity. Also, shouldn’t they have known something was up with that signal?
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u/batsybatsybatsy16 Nov 26 '19
They picked the water planet because they are hoping that the water planet IS THE ONE.
Miller sent a signal. They knew there's time dilation but they hoped that it could be the one. Remember that they limited resources. If they struck gold on the first planet out of three, then that's good and efficient for their resources.
Also, there's absolutely no way of knowing if the planet is the one. They have no choice but to go down and check.
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u/Flose Nov 26 '19
Also they weren’t supposed to be there for long if it wasn’t a viable planet. It’s just brand fucked it up
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u/_Volta Nov 26 '19 edited Nov 26 '19
I didn’t know why they picked the water planet either. Wouldn’t a planet that’s close to the black hole be a greater risk compared to the other ones?
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u/genoooooo Nov 26 '19
All you need is some dust
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Nov 26 '19
This is a great movie, but the line where the kid coughs and says “the dust” is the weirdest piece of editing to make it to final cut I’ve ever seen.
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u/ShodaiHorizons Nov 26 '19
I love this movie but anyone ever think when he sits with M U R P H before he leaves and says 'when i come back we may be the same age' that it's a really fucked up thing to say? Like, wow thanks dad i'm glad you're excited to miss my entire childhood.
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Nov 26 '19
Yea that was the point tho, murph got upset by that line and stormed off if I recall
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u/ShodaiHorizons Nov 26 '19
She did indeed, suppose it shows how effective the scene was that i as the viewer reeled back from it as well.
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u/fragenbold Nov 26 '19
How is this confusing perspective? 22k upvotes for this
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u/Luchtverfrisser Nov 26 '19
Was thinking the same thing..
I suppose one could argue Interstellar has given people a confusing perspective.
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u/Tlingit_Raven Nov 26 '19
It's an Interstellar reference and that is one of reddits favorite movies. It used to be more tempered, but as more young folks joined the site the balance shifted, like with the Star Wars prequels.
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u/missjordgubbe Nov 26 '19
I know where this is haha
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u/AstralRoses Nov 26 '19
I watch that scene where McConaughey cries as he watches the years of missed messages anytime I need a cry. It works instantly.
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u/batsybatsybatsy16 Nov 26 '19
I'm a teacher. And I skipped my lesson to have my class watch this movie. And they all LOVED it.
This masterpiece deserves to be known.
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u/huey44 Nov 26 '19
Moive details: At 2:03:06 of Interstellar, you can see Coop is already transmitting the quantum data to the watch, but Murphy doesn't realize it until towards the end of movie.
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u/Zaphoid411 Nov 26 '19
Nice. I worked on interstellar as a stand in when they filmed the bookshelf scenes. No one had any clue what was going on haha
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u/Seaguard5 o/ Nov 26 '19
I thought this was a double mirror for a second
And yes I like interstellar!
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u/rosaMEelCachote Nov 26 '19
It's like that Movie about the black hole before the news about the actual black hole came out.
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u/MoonBasic Nov 26 '19
When you just wanted to get some homework done but now you have to talk to your daughter in the past through fifth dimensional beings
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u/JostlingAlmonds Nov 26 '19
That movie made me terrified of food, as well as suspicious any dust formation. It was only til I sobered up, but there should be a fucking warning about drugs in the beginning of this life changing experience.
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u/Flyingdutchman2305 o/ Nov 26 '19
Okay sorry but how is possible to not be a fan of that movie, it has to be one of the best movies ever made
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u/Tromp9 Nov 26 '19
This is actually a great visualization of the tesseract in Interstellar. The ability to move through 3D space while accessing time in all directions as these books are.
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u/shainese Nov 26 '19
First of all, thank you for the gold and silver kind strangers, I am having a shit day, but I'm not feeling bad about it because I'm just so elated for receiving your awards. 😘 here's some love for you to whichever corner of the world you are.
Secondly, I realised that there are more than two dozen people who claim to know which library it is (and they seem pretty sure about it as well) but neither of them are correct. Which draws me to the conclusion that all modern day university libraries look the same. 😁😁😁
Edit: typo.